Dobbins Instrument, Company Collection 1911-1999 1980-1990

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Dobbins Instrument, Company Collection 1911-1999 1980-1990

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Collection of ephemera, blueprints, patents, company correspondence, photographs, periodicals, and newspaper articles of the Dobbins Instrument Company. Dobbins Instrument Company manufactured telescopes and telescope accessories for amateurs, and colleges and universities. Dobbins Instrument Company was established by Thomas J. Dobbins and Thomas A. Dobbins in Lyndhurst, Ohio on November 20, 1979 until the 1990s. Company was renamed A.R.O. Instrument Company in 1992 and lasted until 1997. Thomas A. Dobbins is an astronomer and a solar system observer and the author of astronomical and solar system books and articles. He was commissioned by Antonio Minorace Martinez, a wealthy amateur astronomer, to build a telescope with stargazing capabilities. Thomas A. Dobbins also made early contributing observations of the white spot on Saturn in 1996. Collection processed and EAD Finding Aid created by Susan Mullee.

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The Dobbins Instrument Co., a telescope manufacturing company, made more than 100 telescopes. The Dobbins Instrument Company started November 20, 1979, and lasted until 1991. The Company was started by Thomas J. Dobbins (August 13, 1922 - November 9, 2002) and his son, Thomas A. Dobbins (Born: August 4, 1958-). Dobbins Instrument Company was located in Lyndhurst, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. In 1992, the rejuvenated company went by the name A.R.O. Instrument Company, and lasted until 1997. A.R.O. Inst...

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